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Classroom & Home Visitors.
Classroom & Home Visitors. All courses are two 90 minute sessions on consecutive days. Scroll down for more info.
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Classroom.
Classroom, Home Visitors, Family Support.
Home Visitors & Family Support.
We're partnering with some fabulous trainers to provide useful and thought-provoking information for those of you who work with infants and toddlers, whether it is in a classroom, home visiting, or elsewhere.
Each mini-course will consist of two 90-minute sessions on consecutive days, and after the course you will have access to the recording for two weeks.
You can register a la carte for individual classes, or for a package of 3 or 6! STARS credit is available for everything.
Scroll down or hit the 'agenda' tab to see detailed course descriptions.
Limited scholarships available
Course list (C =Classroom, HV =Home Visiting, F=Family Support, eSp =clase en español)
C / HV
Following their Lead: Being an Intentional Partner in Play/Taking Advantage of Teachable Moments, May 17-18 10-11:30am
C / HV F
Beyond the Bubble Bath: Supporting Staff Resiliency & Wellness, May 19 & 20, 9-10:30am
Infant Mental Health, May 19 & 20, 2-3:30pm
Time to Create! Born to Explore/Artfully Awesome, May 20-21 10-11:30am
C
Cultural Responsiveness and Serving Diverse Populations, May 20 & 21, 11-12:30pm
Infant & Toddler Language and Literacy,May 24 & 25, 10-11:30am
HV F
NEAR@Home – Trauma-Informed Work with Families, May 24 & 25, 1-2:30pm
Moving from Compliance to the Art of Teaching, May 25 & 26, 3-4:30pm
Behavior Intervention for Waddlers and Toddlers, May 26 & 27, 11-12:30
C / HV eSp
Intervenciones de Comportamiento, Mayo 26 & 27, 2-3:30pm
Nurturing Well-Being: Calming and coping strategies for children and their caregivers, May 27 & 28, 2-3:30pm
C / HV F eSp
Cuidado del bienestar: Estrategias de calma y de afrontamiento para los niños y sus cuidadores, May 27 & 28, 9-10:30am
www.wsaheadstarteceap.com
Our second annual Birth to Three Institute! This is a great training event for staff of all kinds of 0-3 programs. We've moved this conference online, and hope you join our great presenters!
More than two decades of firsthand experience have provided Elda Perez with precious knowledge about what works—and what doesn’t—in early childhood programs. From designing and planning new programs to implementing quality improvement criteria for existing ones, Elda has done it all. Eager to share the fruits of her experience, Elda embraces every opportunity to help others benefit from her deep understanding. In her role as professional development specialist, Elda draws on her knowledge to provide relatable advice that targets the specific needs of her audience. Whether she is speaking to program directors, classroom teachers or parents, Elda offers practical support that addresses their most pressing concerns. A true team player herself, Elda emphasizes the importance of cross-collaboration in meeting essential program goals. In addition to a bachelor of science degree and a master’s degree in early childhood education, Elda holds multiple certifications—including as a CLASS trainer and observer. Elda also relies on her considerable bilingual skills to support English-language and Spanish-language audiences alike. With a strong focus on program management, quality improvement and school readiness, Elda enchants her audiences with an unmistakable passion and commitment to early education.
Renee holds 15 years of experience in early learning, prenatal to school age children from home visiting, center based and before and after school settings. Her experience includes working in tribal communities, within the military communities and among immigrant populations. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts with focus on Education and a Master’s Degree in Psychology with focus in Infant and Toddler Mental Health. She has two certificates in Early Childhood Education. She is presently the Director of the Annette. B. Weyerhaeuser Early Learning Center at Tacoma Community College. She is also an Adjunct Instructor for the Early Childhood Education Program with an emphasis on Special Needs, at Tacoma Community College.
Zoe Sameth is a bilingual (Spanish/English) educator, speaker and consultant working with all ages to reduce stress, raise well-being and cultivate more awareness, connection, resilience and joy. Zoe has a Master’s degree in Experiential Education and over thirty years of experience in the field. She has provided support to many Head Start and Early Head Start programs nationally and has taught at two WSA Head Start/ECEAP Summer Institutes. Zoe was featured as a ¨Hometown Hero¨ by Channel 5 news for her work with Bay Area schools. She is also the recipient of the Truman Scholarship, a U.S. government fellowship awarded annually to individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership abilities. Zoe’s “Deep Relaxation” and “Calm Your Mind, Lift Your Spirit” audio programs are used by adults, youth and children around the world and will be available free of charge, in both English and Spanish, to participants of this workshop. Visit www.zoesameth.com for additional information on Zoe.
Teniel has a Masters in Education from the University of Washington and a long career in Early Learning. She is a STARS trainer and consultant, has worked as an Infant-Toddler coach/consultant through Child Care Resources, and started her career as an Early Head Start family educator with Puget Sound Educational Service District. She has served as the Hispanic Liaison for the City of Federal Way and leads a Spanish Facebook group focusing on infant mental health. Teniel is also the parent of an Early Head Start graduate.
Nicol Russell currently serves as Vice President of Implementation Research for Teaching Strategies, LLC. In this role, Nicol provides content knowledge and expertise in child development with a focus on research of the implementation of early learning programs and their effects on young children. Nicol holds a bachelor’s and master?s degree in early childhood education and a doctor of education degree in educational leadership. Her research interests include the inequities in education for young Indigenous and Black children.
Rhonda Crooker is a registered nurse in Washington state with over 20 years’ experience serving families with infants and toddlers, mostly as a home visitor. Her passion for equity and social justice led her to develop extensive knowledge of trauma and hope informed practices. Rhonda has developed curricula and conducted trainings on trauma and hope informed care for home visitors, foster parents, educators, law enforcement, and probation officers. She has enjoyed being a NEAR@Home facilitator since 2017. In her free time, she enjoys reading, time in nature, and time spent with Zoey the Doberman Pinscher.
David Johnson lives on Occupied Duwamish territory, uses he/him pronouns. He currently works as the Early ECEAP Manager for DCYF ECEAP. David has worked in Head Start/Early Head Start and ECEAP programs since 1990, in a variety of roles; Assistant Teacher, Teacher, Transportation Coordinator and Director (which includes regular food services) in three different programs in NYC and Seattle. His focus has been on meeting children, families and staff where they are at, with humanizing approaches and community and relationship building pedagogies.
Carol Young, LMFT, IMH-E® is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, Endorsed® as an Infant Mental Health Mentor-Clinical. Her work has been exclusively with infants, toddlers, their families and those who support them for the past 20 years. Carol is a NEAR@Home Facilitator, facilitates Endorsement Coordination for several Infant Mental Health Associations including Aim Early Idaho, and provides direct services to families with children birth to 3 years old. She also provides reflective supervision/consultation and training to professionals working with young children & families. Mindfulness, gratitude, and self-compassion are Carol’s guiding principles professionally and personally. She reminds herself daily that joy exists in the journey not the destination.
Leah Niezwaag, AM, LCSW, IMH-E(III) (she/her) began her journey in Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health as a home visitor in 2010. For the past 10 years, Leah has worked in Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health as a home visitor, therapist, and infant mental health consultant for childcares. Leah currently provides reflective supervision and consultation to home visitors, supervisors, and clinicians. Leah is one of five, NEAR@Home Facilitators and currently provides facilitated learning to home visiting programs.
Grand Canyon University
Lakeshore Learning
Between birth and age three, children rapidly achieve many important milestones that create the foundation for later growth and development. In Part 1 we will explore what intentional choices can we make with children to support their learning while being an intentional partner in play? We will look at specific strategies that enrich being a partner in play through opportunities for discovery and actively participating in their play. As responsive partners in play, we will address the growth of the whole child while respecting them and their play.
During Part 2, we will look at the role the caregiver plays in helping to foster children's learning and development. We will explore how to be responsive to a child’s cues and providing support as children develop and reach milestones. We will discuss strategies and activities to support communication, language, and physical development while engaging with infants and toddlers.
As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
* list opportunities for a child’s discovery
* apply a 3-step process to initiate responsive teacher-child interactions.
* employ contributions while being a partner in play
* define and describe the stages of language and physical development for infants and toddlers
* implement effective strategies to support children’s language and physical development
Lead Educational Presenter
Lakeshore Professional Development Specialist
list opportunities for a child’s discovery
apply a 3-step process to initiate responsive teacher-child interactions.
employ contributions while being a partner in play
define and describe the stages of language and physical development for infants and toddlers
implement effective strategies to support children’s language and physical development
This two part session will focus briefly on why resiliency and wellness are critically important and then dive deeper into what subtle adjustments and concrete strategies can be used to sustain us as we continue to navigate trauma-saturated environments with integrity, hope, and an increased sense of well-being. Participants will gain a greater understanding of resiliency and wellness and be provided resources and strategies for implementation.
Consultant
Region X Training & Technical Assistance (ICF)
What is infant mental health and how can we support it as providers? Join this workshop to learn about:
· Attachment and its importance
· Infant cues and communication
· Temperament
· Self-regulation
· Infant stress signals, and
Why infant mental health matters in early childhood settings.
Teniel Sabin Training and Consulting
Early Childhood Education Specialist
In this workshop, we will dive into visual arts, music and movement and dramatic play to discuss how to engage infants and toddlers in meaningful, developmentally appropriate art activities. Through the arts, we will embed meaningful learning opportunities that support language, math, fine and gross motor, and social emotional development…all while having fun!
As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to:
· embed meaningful learning opportunities into art activities; and
· provide infants and toddlers with open-ended materials and opportunities for creative expression.
Let's build on and explore evidence-based practices related to providing responsive care and education in home, classroom, and community settings serving culturally, linguistically, and ability-diverse children, birth to eight years old, and their families.
Our time together will ask you to explore your own personal culture and to explore ways in which to become an effective teacher, and advocate to each young child and their families. Included are strategies for helping teachers, children, families, and colleagues to communicate, negotiate, and resolve dilemmas caused by cultural differences. There will be a focus on using an anti-bias approach.
Tacoma Community College Childcare Center Director and Adjunct Instructor
Tacoma Community College
Books are the cornerstone of literacy but what the children hear is the cornerstone of language development. In this session, we will define and describe key milestones for children ages 0-3 and how they affect the process of acquiring language and literacy skills. We will discuss the stages of language development and effective strategies we can utilize to support infants and toddlers develop language and literacy skills. We will explore the importance of vocabulary and discuss why we use words the children don’t know. We will discuss the benefits of teaching and utilizing sign language and how to develop a bond with children through the exploring language and print.
· define and describe developmental milestones of children ages 0-3;
· utilize effective strategies to support infants and toddlers develop language and literacy skills.
Trauma and hope informed practice in the field of early childhood service provision requires a high level of skill and commitment from all levels of an organization. Home visitors and other early childhood service providers have shared they do not always feel well equipped or prepared to engage families in sensitive conversations around ACEs and trauma. We believe early childhood service providers deserve to experience the same level of support and respect they provide to the families they serve. The NEAR@Home toolkit was developed by home visitors for home visitors to begin to meet this need. A learning process was subsequently developed and tested to guide and support early childhood providers working in the context of relationship-based practice in having sensitive conversations around ACEs and trauma. The learning process is relationship-based, reflective, and grounded in principles of safety and social justice, guided by facilitators fluent in infant mental health principles and trauma and hope informed practice.
You are invited to join us as we discuss some of the foundational principles of the NEAR@Home learning process and way of being. We will journey together through the experience of a NEAR home visit, pausing along the way for reflection on thoughts and feelings that may arise. Please bring something to write with/on for personal reflection. We may also provide opportunity for reflection in small groups. We will acknowledge this topic as stressful and discuss safety and choice. We will also share NEAR@Home resources, many of which are free and available to anyone. This session is ideal for home visitors and early childhood service providers who view engaging in sensitive conversations with families as part of their role, as well as the supervisors who support them.
Facilitator
NEAR@Home
“Moving from Compliance to the Art of Teaching”
Teachers, Home Visitors and other staff in government funded Birth to Three programs face enormous compliance challenges in their work. With so many forms to complete, checklists are everywhere with “deadlines” and requirements often spilling into the relationship based service we hope to provide children and families. None of us enter this work with young children and families to be good at checklists. What if, we could reframe our use of tools (e.g. checklists, curriculum and assessment) by focusing on growing our own practice, making our inner lives more part of our professional life and build our confidence in this relationship based work. This workshop will support the reflective practice of each participant, to explore how we use tools and how they can add to our practice, not lead us.
Early ECEAP Director
Dept of Children, Youth and Families
Vice President of Implementation Research
Teaching Strategies
Is behavior getting in the way of routines? Interrupting Learning? Stressing you out? Learn WHY it happens, strategies for BEFORE and AFTER challenging behaviors.
WHY - Behavior Analysis models for reflection of the reason behind the behavior.
BEFORE - Prevention Strategies to limit and reduce the frequency and intensity.
AFTER - Redirection and responses to Challenging behavior.
Also, Resources and guidance to Create a Behavior Intervention Plan and monitor progress and effectiveness.
¿El comportamiento se interpone en el fluye de las rutinas? ¿Interrumpe el aprendizaje? ¿Te estresa? Aprenda POR QUÉ sucede, estrategias para ANTES y DESPUÉS de comportamientos desafiantes.
POR QUÉ - Modelos de análisis de comportamiento para la reflexión de la razón detrás del comportamiento.
ANTES- Estrategias de prevención para limitar y reducir la frecuencia e intensidad.
DESPUÉS- Redirección y respuestas al comportamiento difíciles.
Además, recursos y orientación para crear un plan de intervención de comportamiento y monitorear el progreso y la efectividad.
Las relaciones tempranas son tan importantes para el desarrollo de bebés y niños. En los primeros años, las relaciones nutritivas, estables y consistentes son la clave para crecimiento, desarrollo y aprendizaje saludables. Para nutrir el desarrollo y el bienestar de los más pequeños de la mejor manera posible también debemos cuidarnos bien (por no mencionar que merecemos hacerlo de todos modos).
Este divertido, experiencial e interactivo taller le introducirá y guiará a través de prácticas tanto para niños como para adultos para reducir el estrés, elevar la relajación y ayudar a calmar el sistema nervioso.
Se enseñarán técnicas de atención plena, ejercicios de respiración, imágenes guiadas y otras estrategias para ayudar a los proveedores, junto con los niños y las familias a las que sirven, a hacer frente a las mayores ansiedades e incertidumbres a las que todos hemos estado enfrentando. Este taller se centrará en ofrecer oportunidades de práctica directa, para encontrar la calma en el momento.
Presenter
Early relationships are so important to developing infants and children. In the early years, nurturing, stable and consistent relationships are the key to healthy growth, development and learning. To nurture the development and well-being of the little ones in the best way possible we must also be taking good care of ourselves (not to mention that we deserve to anyway).
This fun, experiential and interactive workshop will introduce and guide you through practices for both children and adults to reduce stress, raise relaxation, and help calm the nervous system. Mindfulness techniques, breathing exercises, guided imagery and other strategies will be taught to help providers, along with the children and families they serve, cope with the heightened anxieties and uncertainties we have all been facing. This training will focus on offering direct practice opportunities during the workshop, to find calm in the moment.
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